Advance HE Membership

Designed to enable institutional, staff and student success, Advance HE membership packages give you access to world-leading services which will support you in helping you shape your future in today’s highly competitive HE market.

About Us

We understand it is essential that Advance HE membership supports you to deliver your institutional strategies and overcome challenges.

Our member benefits provide access to resources, insights, networks and
communities, the priorities for which are determined by our members through a series of strategic advisory groups and your ongoing feedback. Whether it is through webinars, thriving online communities via Advance HE Connect, our PVC network, the Good Practice Grant series or toolkits and publications, membership of Advance HE is designed to develop staff and to enhance performance.

COVID-19 update

We are continually monitoring the situation in light of the global COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak. Full information on updates to member benefits can be found below.

Advance HE Membership 2020-21

A world wide pandemic determines the extraordinary context in which we launch Advance HE membership for 2020-21. It will shape our work as your sector development agency as we navigate these challenges together.

We work closely with our members and in recent months our conversations have focused on how our services will help to support the transition and transformation ahead. Through these conversations you have confirmed that for the coming year Advance HE should focus our support in four key areas:

developing resilience

designing flexible educational programmes

strengthening leadership and governance capability

understanding and mitigate the equalities impact of the changes ahead.

Membership packages

Advance HE Membership Benefits 2020 – 21

Whilst we are committed to providing continuity in key member services, Covid-19 has impacted every aspect of institutional operations and daily life has been turned on its head. Our members have asked us to ensure that the features of membership are responsive and focus on supporting the unprecedented challenges faced over the coming year. Working with members we will shape our grants, publications, events, webinars, advice and guidance to ensure they are needs-driven and provide real impact.

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Covid-19 - Ensuring sustainability and readiness for the new normal

We recently launched a members-only project to better understand how high quality, socially distanced on campus education can be achieved. Similar members-only projects planned for 20-21 will focus on realising the learning from the Covid-19 emergency response and considering how institutions can reshape and redefine themselves in light of the changing world around them.

Advance HE brings us together as a sector to help tackle the ‘bigger than us’ challenges. Initiatives that support sector-wide enhancement such as Athena SWAN, the Professional Standards Framework, Race Equality Charter, and the National Teaching Fellowship Scheme, add real value and strengthen us all. In the current climate it feels more important than ever for the sector to find means to collaborate to address the challenges we face, and Advance HE can help us achieve this together.”

Professor Becky Huxley-Binns, PVC Education, University of Hull

Advance HE Membership Packages

Advance HE has membership packages to suit your institution's requirements.

Membership for institutions in the UK

This package of Membership gives you access to the full range of our core member benefit services plus our accreditation options (Athena SWAN, REC and/or Teaching and Learning Accreditation).

Membership for Welsh institutions

Advance HE membership for institutions in Wales together post-16 education-focused expertise in teaching and learning, equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI), leadership and management and governance.

Research Institute Membership in the UK

Research Institute Membership provides you with access to resources, insights, networks and communities, the priorities for which are determined by our members through a series of strategic advisory groups and your ongoing feedback

The project meeting for the Wales Higher Education Wellbeing Initiative (WHEWI) on 1st April will be postponed, with elements delivered online and via 1:1 engagement.

Plans are in place to move Welsh member networks to be held remotely and with conversations supported online via Advance HE Connect. This includes upcoming Welsh Institutional Group (WIG) and EDI network meetings scheduled for 13 and 14 May, respectively, as well as the Organisational and Staff Development (OSD) network on 19 May.

The Getting to Grips with Principal Fellowship event (previously scheduled for 24 March) will be now be delivered online on Thursday 14 May. Registered participants should already have received relevant information about this.

Module three of the Scottish Academic Leadership Programme, scheduled for the 26 March, will be postponed, allowing it and subsequent modules to be delivered virtually later this year.

The Organisational Development/Leadership themed event will be delivered online on Thursday 28 May (2-4pm). Further information has been distributed to our named Leadership Contacts at each institution.